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I’ve basically taught myself to manage my ADHD with notes and threads. My “schedule intelligence” (deadlines, calendars, checklist) is terrible but my recognition and web-jumping is fantastic, so I spent something like a decade using the latter to build an elaborate mind-palace https://t.co/A2E4okufzH
This is actually a nice and meta example of what I’m talking about, in real-time action. Because of threading and recognition, I can almost always pick up where I left off https://t.co/2sUKsmefHL
I used to feel guilty and ashamed about the idea of having to rely on a prosthetic, but I’ve since learned to see it as a mecha for the mind https://t.co/s2jWMMBsin
If you’re like me, keep meticulous notes of whatever you do when you’re procrastinating. I think of it as “deep-self-directed work”. If you’re going to watch trashy movies then write down your thoughts after watching each movie. It’ll come in handy in ways you least expect https://t.co/fsR3rNnG3t
To me, the most critical part of becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is to be “so prolific you don’t recognise yourself”. Once you cross that threshold you can actually look at your own work with a relatively objective, critical eye https://t.co/R9FpNLBvAw
funny/silly/crazy thing is, very often, the moment you step into the maker role, or on stage, etc, you almost immediately forget everything you knew or thought you knew when you were on the other end so much of a maker's journey is about rediscovering the joy of being a fan https://t.co/tcN5ABrKSJ
People are sometimes surprised to hear how agnostic and indifferent I am to specific methods, formats, tools. The only thing that really matters to me is a sense of flow and throughout through the entire pipeline https://t.co/ZBnGJtLABe
@uberstuber That’s probably like 60% of it; most of the rest of it is typing into my Notes app on Mac, or talking with friends - there’s a sort of waterfall effect where notes from different areas trickle from disparate sources to notes and twitter and then to essays and blogposts
Be so prolific you don’t recognise yourself https://t.co/4gCKsqZLJx
Getting lost is a feature not a bug, the only real problem is getting jammed https://t.co/GIaM88idg6
chaingun metaphor https://t.co/2GCuplR4KG
ferrari racecar with bicycle brakes https://t.co/vZzfkge0zi
navigate by feeling https://t.co/Q01xiL0ydk
@uberstuber That’s probably like 60% of it; most of the rest of it is typing into my Notes app on Mac, or talking with friends - there’s a sort of waterfall effect where notes from different areas trickle from disparate sources to notes and twitter and then to essays and blogposts